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ment of New Zealand to pay compensation to any person,
corporate body, or local authority by reason of the exercise
by the licensee of the authority hereby granted; but the
licensee shall be liable for any loss or damage which any
person, corporate body, or local authority may sustain as the
result of the exercise by the licensee of any of the powers
granted by this license.

12. BED OF RIVER NOT LEASED.
    Nothing herein shall be held to constitute a lease from the
    Crown of the bed of the river shown on the aforesaid plan
    marked P.W.D. 59813, nor shall the provisions of Part IX of
    the Property Law Act, 1908, apply to this license.

13. DEFAULT.
    If the licensee fails or neglects to observe any of the con-
    ditions or obligations imposed by this license, then and in
    any such case the provisions of clauses 15 and 16 of the
    regulations shall apply to the breach of any such condition
    or obligation.

14. LOCATION OF OVERHEAD LINES.
    Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, one side
    of every road or street shall be left free by the licensee for
    telegraph-lines. Lines shall not be erected on both sides of
    a road or street unless the permission of the Minister of Tele-
    graphs or the Post and Telegraph Department is first obtained
    in accordance with clause 5 of the regulations. The minimum
    distance between a telephone-line and poles carrying high- or
    extra-high-tension circuits shall be equal to the height of the
    taller pole except at crossing-places.

15. CONVERSION OF LINES FROM EARTH-WORKING TO METALLIC.
    Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the licensee
    shall bear the cost of converting the Railway or Post and
    Telegraph Department's lines which are now erected from
    earth-working to metallic, if required by the Minister of
    Railways or Minister of Telegraphs.

16. TELEGRAPH-LINES.
    The licensee shall rectify to the satisfaction of the Minister
    of Railways or Minister of Telegraphs any interference or
    disturbance caused by the erection or operation of the licensee's
    system that affects the satisfactory working of telegraph-
    lines which are the property of the Railway Department or
    Telegraph Department, and which were erected prior to the
    licensee's lines.

17. RIGHT TO ENTER LANDS, ETC.
    The licensee shall have the right at any time or times
    during the continuance of this license, with the consent of
    the Minister, subject to such conditions as he may think fit
    to impose, to enter upon any road or other land, whether
    vested in or occupied by the Crown or any other person or
    body corporate, and there to construct, erect, lay down,
    maintain, renew, or repair all such cables, wires, and other
    things as are required for the transmission of electricity
    between the power-house hereinbefore referred to and any
    place to which the licensee is authorized to transmit electricity
    in pursuance of this license.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Licensing the Use and Occupation of certain Parts of the
Foreshore of Hokianga River, at Rawene.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this 6th day of
October, 1924.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS, there being no Harbour Board empowered
to grant the license hereinafter mentioned, William
Maki Cochrane, of Rawene (who with his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, is hereinafter referred to as "the
licensee"), has applied to the Governor-General in Council
for a license under the Harbours Act, 1923 (hereinafter called
"the said Act"), to occupy a part of the foreshore below
low-water mark at Rawene, in Hokianga Harbour, as a site
for a shed, platform, and timber-yard, and, in accordance
with the one-hundred-and-seventy-first section of the said
Act, has deposited a plan in the office of the Marine
Department at Wellington (marked M.D. 5905), showing
the place where it is intended to construct such shed,
platform, and timber-yard, the area of foreshore and land
below low-water mark intended to be occupied for such pur-
pose, and the manner in which it is proposed to carry out the
work:
And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor-
General in Council that the proposed work will not be or
tend to the injury of navigation, and the said plan has, prior
to the making of this Order in Council, been approved by
the Governor-General in Council :
And whereas it is expedient that a license under the said
Act, for the purpose aforesaid, should be granted and issued
to the licensee on the terms and conditions hereinafter
expressed :
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority vested in him by the said Act, and
of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that
behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby
approve of the purpose or object for which the said license
is required by the licensee as aforesaid ; and, in further
pursuance and exercise of the said power and authority, and
with the like advice and consent as aforesaid, doth hereby
license and permit the licensee to use and occupy that part
of the foreshore and land below low-water mark which is
particularly shown and delineated as number 35 on the plan
so deposited as aforesaid, for the purpose of maintaining
thereon a shed, platform, and timber-yard constructed in
accordance with the said plan, such license to be held and
enjoyed by the licensee upon and subject to the terms and
conditions set forth in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

1. In these conditions the term--
   " Foreshore" means such parts of the bed, shore, or banks
   of a tidal water as are covered and uncovered by the
   flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides :
   " Low-water mark " means low-water mark at ordinary
   spring tides:
   " Minister" means the Minister of Marine as defined by
   the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and includes any
   officer, person, or authority acting by or under the
   direction of such Minister.
2. The concessions and privileges conferred by this Order
   in Council shall extend and apply only to that part of the
   foreshore and land below low-water mark necessary for the
   construction of the shed, platform, and timber-yard, as shown
   on plan M.D. 5905.
3. In consideration of the concessions and privileges granted
   by this Order in Council the licensee shall pay to the Minister
   the sum of £2 10s., and thereafter an annual sum of £5 in
   advance, payable on the 1st day of April in each year, the
   proportionate part of such annual rental in respect of the
   period from the date hereof until the 31st day of March follow-
   ing, to be paid on the licensee being supplied with a copy of
   this Order in Council.
4. His Majesty or the Governor-General, and all officers in
   the Government service acting in the execution of their duty,
   shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress into,
   through, over, and out of the said shed, platform, and
   timber-yard without payment.
5. The licensee shall maintain the above-mentioned shed,
   platform, and timber-yard in good order and repair, and shall
   at all times exhibit therefrom, and maintain at the licensee's
   own cost, any lights that may be required by the Minister;
   provided that no light shall be exhibited until after it has
   been approved of by the Minister.
6. Any person authorized by the Minister may at all
   reasonable times enter upon the said shed, platform, and
   timber-yard and view the state of repair thereof; and upon
   such Minister leaving at or posting to the last known address
   of the licensee in New Zealand a notice in writing of any
   defect or want of repair in such shed, platform, and timber-
   yard, requiring the licensee, within a reasonable time, to be
   therein prescribed, to repair the same, the licensee shall with
   all convenient speed cause such defect to be removed or such
   repairs to be made.
7. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the licensee
   to do or cause to be done anything repugnant to or incon-
   sistent with any law relating to the Customs, or any regula-
   tion of the Minister of Customs, or with any provisions of the
   Harbours Act, 1923, or its amendments, or any regulations
   made thereunder, and that are now or may hereafter be in
   force.
8. The rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this
   Order in Council shall continue in force for fourteen years
   from the date hereof, unless in the meantime such rights,
   powers, and privileges shall be altered, modified, or revoked
   by competent authority ; and the licensee shall not assign,
   charge, or part with any such right, power, or privilege with-
   out the previous written consent of the Minister first obtained.